Tagged: russia

Burger King Russia’s adoption of Waves Platform for its loyalty program shows that Distributed Ledger Technology could one day become as mainstream as burgers and fries. Fast food giant Burger King Russia has announced its new blockchain loyalty program, hosted on the Waves platform. Whoppercoin –… Read More

Latvian peer-to-peer lending platform TWINO has reportedly added a second Russian originator to its platform since its December 2016 launch. According to P2P Finance News, over 40% of TWINO’s investors have funded Russian loans. While sharing more details about its Russian expansion, Jevgenijs Kazanins, P2P… Read More

The National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, and Waves Platform, have partnered on the creation of a Blockchain based platform to support digital assets. The new platform architecture will be designed to securely host and store tokenised and crypto assets, settling transactions and… Read More

Russia’s central securities depository, The National Settlement Depository (NSD) announced on Friday it is teaming up with Waves Platform to develop a new blockchain platform to support digital assets. The duo revealed that the new platform will securely host and store tokenized and crypto assets,… Read More

Finstar Financial Group has announced it will dedicate $150 million into Fintech startups over the next five years. Finstar is a private equity founded by Oleg Boyko who launched the firm in 1996. Finstar invests in IT, consumer retail and real estate. In recent years… Read More

South Korean fintech startup Paycock has reportedly signed a business MOU with AEB IT, a Russian financial IT corporation, and will now begin to commercialize its mobile payment solution into the Russian financial market. Paycock Check is described as a mobile payment service that does… Read More

Deloitte CIS and Waves Platform, a leading developer of blockchain solutions, signed a memorandum on strategic partnership. The partnership is aimed at providing clients with comprehensive ICO services and customized blockchain solutions tailored for specific business tasks. Waves Blockchain Platform will provide technology solutions for the introduction… Read More

Primalbase is the next company to quickly complete an initial coin offering (ICO) on the Waves platform. This took place last week but Primalbase reportedly raised 3100 BTC is a bit over 24 hours. At this very moment, that equates to around $7.6 million. Waves reported… Read More

EXMO, a UK-based cryptocurrency exchange operating in multiple fiat and cryptocurrency pairs, announced on Friday it has added Waves Platform to its list of offered coins. EXMO reports it will initially list the WAVES/BTC pair as well as USD and EUR fiat options. It also supports Russian… Read More

Fresh from completing its Initial Coin Offering in June 2016 which reportedly garnered more than $16 million (30,000 BTC), Waves platform has introduced a now live USD gateway. Waves, a Russian decentralised platform for launching crowdfunding campaigns and issuing digital assets, has announced that its users can… Read More

ZrCoin, based in Russia, says it has raised $7.07 million in cryptocurrency from 3,955 investors during their Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The offer was live from May 11th to June 9th and was hosted on the Waves platform. The company says the funds collected will… Read More

Russian Politician and Billionaire Boris Titov has signed an agreement with Sasha Ivanov, CEO of Waves Platform, to create an Initial Coin Offering incubator. The new incubator has been entitled “People of Growth” and is described as a vehicle to assist entrepreneurs and growing companies… Read More

Not only was Megan Kelly grilling Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) this week but other hot topics surround Fintech were on the schedule. One of these topics was the “Explosive Impact of Blockchain Technology” which included the participation of Waves… Read More

Moscow based ZrCoin says it has raised $3.7 Million with the support of over 1,500 participants via an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on the Waves Blockchain Platform. ZrCoin reports the money was raised during a two week crowdfunding campaign earlier this month The funding was… Read More

Waves Platform, a decentralized platform for launching crowdfunding campaigns and issuing digital assets, says it has launched its flagship Euro gateway. The Waves Platform completed its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in June 2016, garnering more than $16 million (30,000 BTC) and becoming one of the… Read More

Starta Accelerator, an early-stage investor and business incubator, announced it is holding a “crowdsale” to secure funding to help start-up tech companies expand into the US. Starta Accelerator is based in New York City and is an offshoot of Starta VC based in Moscow. The… Read More

Waves Platform, a decentralized crowdfunding platform developed in Russia, is now available in the Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service cloud (BaaS). With Waves integrated in BaaS, developers are getting vast opportunities for offering a wide range of blockchain solutions. “We welcome the integration of… Read More

Kreditech Group subsidiary, LLC MFC Kreditech Russia, received the status of a Microfinance Company (MFC) from the Central Bank of Russia. A new federal law in Russia aims to make the microfinance market transparent and understandable and requires MFC status for all alternative lending companies operating in… Read More

ID Finance has integrated with Blackmoon and is now executing investment transactions via the Russian online lending platform. ID Finance is a data science, credit scoring and “nonbank digital lending as an application” provider. ID Finance has is currently operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Poland, Spain and Brazil…. Read More

Russian developer CINEMOOD announced on Thursday the IIDF fund of Moscow invested USD $2.5 million Series A equity. The company created portable mini-cinema projector devices with a content platform for kids and released its second model, which is is a complete platform of hardware and entertainment and… Read More